Guardian CEO: 'The Idea We Will Survive By Becoming a Technology Company is Garbage'

The sky-high valuations of digital publishers such as BuzzFeed and Vox are fuelled by the idea that the media company of the future also has to be a tech company. Almost every new digital media business from Mashable to Pierre Omidyar's First Loo ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'

[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Powa Does Away With QR Codes to Allow Instant Orders Off Print Ads, Packages

Powa Technologies, which aims to make all ads "shoppable" by letting people scan them with their smartphones to buy products online, is taking another step to make that process easier -- doing away with the need for QR codes so people can scan the print ads whole.Participating brands can upload... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google-backed Lost My Name has sold 1m children's books in two years

British startup has shipped to 160 countries, based on its mantra of being ‘a technology company that happens to make physical books’British startup Lost My Name has sold more than 1m of its personalised picture books for children since launching its first title two years ago.The company’s The... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mashable Shop Is a Native Ad That's Also an Online Store

Digital publishers are looking for all kinds of alternatives to the traditional banner ad. They've typically looked at new ways of fusing editorial and advertising -- sponsored articles, branded videos, etc. -- but Mashable has come up with a way to add e-commerce to the mix.On Cyber Monday... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the New Zola Books, Focus Is On Tech, Not Books

Zola Books didn't work out as a book company, so its literary agent founder reimagined it as a technology company. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian's Tim Gentry on Why the Digital Advertising Problem Needs a Unified Solution

It's a hard call to make, with disincentives for the first to make it, but there's a growing acknowledgement that digital publishers and advertisers have failed to deliver on the promise that digital advertising held.   The ability to id ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital Advertising’s Uncertain Future Focuses on Publishers

A major shakeout is coming to the digital media space as downward pricing pressure squeezes out some players.   Shane Smith, chief executive and co-founder of Vice Media, said the problem is so severe that only digital publishers who are able to ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Olive cookbook series to Orion

Orion has acquired a new series of cookbooks from one of the UK’s leading food magazines. Jillian Young, non-fiction editor at Orion Books, has bought world rights from Immediate Media Company for Olive: 100 of the Best, a new series of cookbooks written in association with Olive... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crowdfunding Journalism to Confront the Media Industry's 'Huge Problem'

There’s a huge problem at the moment in journalism and the publishing industry, which is that no journalism or media company has figured out how to actually fund their content in this new age of the Internet. The big reason is that newspape ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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7 charts that show who’s dominating mobile

The mobile Web is exploding, growing doubly as fast as traffic to apps, according to comScore's latest mobile report. Monthly visitors to the top 1,000 mobile Web properties nearly tripled to 9 million people on average, the report shows. The rise in mobile traffic on smartphones opens a... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Breed of Digital Publishers Just Say No to Ad Tech

Today’s new breed of digital publishers is just not that into ad tech.     Indeed, the much hyped cadre of venture-backed, Web-born, and millennially-inclined publishers — think Vox Media, Mic and Refinery29 &nd ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple loses ebook price fixing appeal

Apple did conspire with publishers in the US to fix the prices of ebooks, an appeal court has found.  The technology company had appealed against an earlier decision by Judge Denise Cote, who said that Apple and publishers were guilty of conspiring to raise the prices of ebooks. Apple appealed... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Global Publishing Leaders 2015: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global educational publishing and technology company that reaches more than 50 million students in the U.S. and 150 other countries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple's iOS 9 update will let you block ads

Life is about to get that little bit harder for digital publishers, thanks to Apple. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Would You Pay to Read Entertainment News Online? Time Inc. Sure Hopes So

Since Time Inc. became an indepedent publicly traded company last June, executives at the nation's large magazine publisher have tried to convince Wall Street investors that it's quickly transforming into a digital-first media company. It's certainly made strides, introducing video series,... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is Hawaii's richest person, Forbes says

Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay, who lives in Honolulu and has a net worth of $8.1 billion, is the richest person in Hawaii, according to Forbes magazine. The 47-year-old billionaire Hawaii resident, who also is a co-founder of Honolulu Civil Beat, ranks No. 168 on the 2015... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gannett to Name Broadcast, Digital Unit TEGNA Amid Print Spinoff

Gannett, the media company that is spinning off its publishing business, said Tuesday it'll run its broadcasting and digital units under the new corporate name TEGNA. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What will be on digital publishers’ minds a year from now?

At Digiday’s Publishing Summit in Vail, Colorado, the big issues crowding publishers’ minds included viewability challenges, mobile and programmatic. So we wondered: What will we be talking about in a year from now that’s not getting much attention now? Publishing execs predicted growing ad... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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X Marks the Spot

The Denmark-based software company, Integration X has made its way to North America, opening a new office in Nashua, N.H. Integration X provides solutions for newspapers, magazines, and digital publishers that automate work processes and add value to ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Slate Doubles Down on Podcasts

There's always been a loyal base of listeners who download podcasts weekly, but thanks to the popularity of shows like Serial, more people are paying attention to the digital format. And the digital media company The Slate Group is betting demand will only continue to increase. In late... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hawaii billionaire Pierre Omidyar's ranking slips on Forbes list, Larry Ellison still No. 5

Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder who lives in Honolulu, saw his ranking on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people slip this year, while Larry Ellison, the billionaire executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp. who owns the island of Lanai in Hawaii, held on to... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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